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Deffense [45]
3 years ago
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In capitalism, most businesses have a profit motive. Describe at least one reason that businesses with a profit motive may be he

lpful for society and at least one reason that they may be harmful for society. Then, explain whether you think profit motive is a good thing or a bad thing for society
Business
1 answer:
klemol [59]3 years ago
7 0
Even though that particular business have the motive of increasing profit there would be a lot of benefits that the society will get such as...
Since most of the business are working for profit in the market this create competition among each other this results to a lower price in markets therfore the society can afford to  buy things.

A bad side of such business could be  the monopoly power, if there is no company that produces similar good or service they tend to abuse the consumers by increasing the price of the goods and services they provide as there are no other firms that provide similar goods or services.

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C) cross-functional teams

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Hence, human resources managers are saddled with the responsibility of recruiting, downsizing, decruiting, managing and improving the welfare and working conditions of the employees working in an organization.

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This ultimately implies that, decruitment is a method adopted by human resource managers to reduce the number of various employees (workforce) working in an organization.

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Generally, liabilities are recorded on the right side of the balance sheet and it comprises of financial informations such as warranties, bonds, loans, deferred revenues, mortgages, account payable etc.

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Basically, companies usually settles their current liabilities with current assets such as account receivables or cash, that are used up within a fiscal year.

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